Decline of the english murder

A collection of some of the less accessible essays by the author of Animal Farm, including his lament for

the inferior quality of modern murders and his comments on the changing face of fictional crime; his long essay on Dickens, and his shrewd critical remarks on Kipling and on the peculiar genius of Salvador Dali; eyewitness accounts of a hanging in Burma and a lazar-house in Paris; with notes on nationalism, on seaside postcards, and on his own ambition – surely realized – to make political writing into an art.